Some Mac developers have gotten together to have a promotion on Thursday, …

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Many of Ars Technica's readers already know of Child's Play, an organization started by the founders of the popular web comic Penny Arcade. If you didn't know before, you know now! Child's Play donates toys and games to children in hospitals worldwide and accepts donations of toys, games, and cash. Right now, this year's contributions are coming up on $300k, and with the support of the tech community, they're likely to get much more.

So what does this have to do with Macs? A bunch of Mac developers have teamed up and have decided to donate all of the proceeds from their software sales made on December 7th to Child's Play. In order to participate in this charitable promotion, just buy the software as you normally would through any online store of your choosing. The benefit to you? You will have made a donation to Child's Play and you get some Mac software.

The software involved include:

iRooster

Billable

Pukka

Delicious Library

Freeze Frame

Pencils Down

VoodooPad

FlySketch

FlyGesture

WebnoteHappy

HoudahSpot

Slingshot

Lifeboat

Safe Place

Knox

iDictionary

App Stop

Rolling Credits

You can read more about all of the software and get links to each via the Ironcoder website. You may also just donate directly to Child's Play if you want to, or do both! This is taking place on Thursday, December 7th, which is tomorrow for most of us. Go forth and spread the cheer.

Update: Delicious Library has apparently joined the crowd in today's Child's Play promotion.

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Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Emailjacqui@arstechnica.com//Twitter@eJacqui